Connecting abolition, anti-racism & anti-capitalism: Preti Taneja in conversation with Tariq Jazeel

This series comprises three events that each centre around a conversation with writers on their books, their work, and the stories they tell about the inherited histories of race, ethnicity, and colonialism in the UK and beyond. Each will last 90 minutes and take a loose format of a conversation between the invited guests on their work followed by 20-25 minutes for questions from the audience at the end. The discussions will be wide-ranging and are likely to cover topics ranging such as the governance of race and its present-day continuations, the historical contingencies of race and the afterlives of colonialism, as well as broader notions such as the aesthetics of writing about race and colonialism. Whilst they will begin by meditating on the text(s) in question, the conversations will also aim to be expansive – engaging with the world around us and its entanglements with the afterlives of race & colonialism.

About the event

How is the project of abolition connected to anti-racist and anti-capitalist politics? Preti Taneja’s latest book, Aftermath (And Other Stories, 2022) reckons with this question amongst others. Written in the aftermath of the London Bridge terror attack, the book works through the interconnectedness of different forms of oppression – Islamophobia, incarceration, colonialism, and more – to present an argument for the elimination of all oppressive forms. In this event, Taneja is in conversation with Tariq Jazeel, Professor of Human Geography and Co-Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation.